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SILAS S. BRADSI-IAW, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE BRADSHAVV IMPROYED WINDOWT OOM- PANY, OF NEW YORK, N.V Y.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 598,239, dated February `1, 189?. Application filed September 4, 1896. Serial No. 604,845. (No model.)

ing rattling or shakingof the same and forV the exclusion of wind or drafts of air, and has for itsobject the provision of acheap, simple, and effective device which may be cheaply,

easily, and quickly applied to any window.

To attain the desired end, my invention consists, essentially, in the combination, with the parting-strip or equivalent, of a springactuated rod located in a groove in the side 2o of said strip, mcvably held at each extremity and arranged to bear against the side stile of a window-sash, pressing the sash against the stops; and my invention also involves certain other novel and useful combinations or arstruction and operation, all of which will be hereinafter first fully described, and then pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a 3o part hereof, Figure l is a vertical sectional view throughl a parting-stri p and the two sashes of an ordinary window lto which my invention is applied. Fig. 2 is an enlarged horizontal sectional view at line xxof Fig. l. 3 5 Similar numerals of reference, wherever they occur, indicate corresponding parts in both gures.

lis an ordinary parting-strip having grooves 2 2 formed in each face. In the drawings 4o these grooves do not extend the entire length of the strip l, but only a portion of each face. If desired and for convenience of manufacture, the grooves may be continuous at each side, enabling the use of the stop with any height of sash and to cut the stop to any desired length.

3 3 are rods, preferably of metal, held in the grooves 2 by staples, pins, or screws 4 at each extremity.

5 5 are springs located beneath the rods 3, 5o v forcing the same away from the bottom of the groove. i

6 is the upper sash and 7 the lower sash, of ordinary construction.

8 is the outer stop, and 9 the inner stop. 5 5

When constructed and arranged in accordance with the foregoing description, my device will be found admirably adapted to the uses and purposes for which it is intended. In the case of new windows the parting-strip, 6o with the spring-actuated rods already in position, may be employed, the additional expense being trifling, and the remainder of the window and the sashes being of ordinary construction. When it is desired to apply my device to old windows, the parting-strip may be removed and grooved for the reception of the rods, or a new parting-strip embodying my invention substituted therefor at a very small expense. 7o

The labor required to apply my device to either old on new windows amounts to very little and the sash itself is not touched. Sash-holders having the inside bead or stop have been so arranged as to slide bodily in keepers wherein are placed springs; but this construction requires the distiguring of the stop and the placing of unsightly metal keepers upon the side of the window-frame. In my construction the rod is concealed from 8o view, and being placed in the side of the strip, leaving a portion of the wood at each side of the rod, the strip may be held in the Y frame in a substantially air-tightv manner. Again, a movable clamping and wedging bar has been placed in a rabbet in a window stop or bead, the rabbet being formed in the edge of the bead. My stop is simply grooved in its side, and as I employ a metal rod in said groove my invention can be used where the stops are 9o very thin, the device last referred to requiring a much greater thickness of the stop or bead in order to permit the requisite arrangement of parts.

In applying the device to single-sash windows--such, for instance, as those in railwaycars-the spring-actuated rod may be located in the strip parting the sash and blind or in the stop, if there is no regular parting-stript, are locatedspringactuated rods, said rods Without departing from the spirit of my inbeing movably held at each extremity, sub- Io stantially as shown and described.

Vention.

Having noW fully described my invention, what I claim as new therein, and desire to se- SILAS S' BRADSHAW' cure by Letters Patent, is- Witnesses:

In a Window-casing, a parting-strip having A. M. PIERCE, grooves in each of its sides or feces wherein LOUISE GILMORE. 

